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"I love stand-up," declares Tiffany Haddish, as she reflects on her 25-year career. "That's where my heart is." While Haddish's acting star has been on the ascendant ever since she lit up the screen in her big-screen breakthrough, Girls Trip, in 2017, she knows she'd always be most comfortable in front of a live…

EXCLUSIVE: John Cho rounds out the Season 2 ensemble cast of Apple TV+’s hit murder mystery comedy series The Afterparty, from Oscar winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord. Cho, who has been tapped as a series regular, joins fellow new cast members Elizabeth Perkins, Zach Woods, Paul Walter Hauser, Poppy Liu, Anna Konkle…

Easter already passed for the year, but Jo Koy’s bringing the chaos of family drama to the summer with Easter Sunday, set to premiere on August 5. On Thursday, Universal revealed the first trailer for Easter Sunday. The clip – featuring quintessentially Filipino karaoke sessions, balikbayan boxes and family drama…

Tubi has handed a Season 2 renewal to The Freak Brothers, its first animated original series, for premiere in December. The streaming service has ordered eight episodes of the adult animated comedy based on Gilbert Shelton's cult classic underground comic. Its all-star voice cast, which includes Woody Harrelson, John…

Discussing her much-praised performance as The Afterparty's disarming and shrewd police detective Danner, the standup comic in Tiffany Haddish could not resist dropping some sly one-liners about her own recent real-life run-in with law enforcement. Haddish joined the "Roshomon"-like Apple TV+ mystery-comedy's…

UPDATED with Carrey, Sandler comments: "Stand-up comics are very adept at handling hecklers," tweeted Mark Hamill last night after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, “violent physical assault…not so much.” Hamill’s tweet drew the distinction between speech and action that many have continued to drive home as…

Editor's note: The Deadline Watchlist is a feature spotlighting small-screen specials, events and can't-miss episodes of ongoing series each week. 1. The Afterparty Season Finale: Through the first seven episodes of the Christopher Miller created and Phil Lord EP'd murder mystery, Tiffany Haddish's Detective Danner…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Aida Rodriguez has signed with Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment. Rodriguez most recently executive produced and starred in the HBO Max comedy special Fighting Words, directed by Emmy-nominated cinematographer Nadia Hallgren (Becoming) and Kristian Mercado (Pa'Lante). The project was a hybrid…

The XXIV Olympic Winter Games officially kick off in Beijing on February 4 with over two weeks of event-to-event coverage from NBC. Amidst diplomatic cold shoulders and human rights abuse protests against Chinese President Xi Jinping and the PRC government, the games are also being held in a lockdown bubble to contain…

Tiffany Haddish was arrested in her car early this morning in Georgia on a suspected DUI charge. Released after posting a $1,666 bond at around 6:30 AM local time, a local law enforcement source says the Grammy winner was found by Peachtree City police after calls to the cops of a driver falling asleep at the wheel…

UPDATED, 9 AM: Apple TV+ has slotted Friday, January 28 for the premiere of its anticipated murder-mystery comedy series The Afterparty, starring Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Ilana Glazer, Zoe Chao, and more. The eight-episode first season will launch with three episodes on January 28, followed by one new episode…

EXCLUSIVE: Elie Samaha, Missy Valdez, Geno Taylor and Daniel Diamond’s newly launched Luminosity Entertainment have set their first movie, the comedy Back on the Strip, starring Wesley Snipes and Tiffany Haddish. Luminosity will finance, produce and distribute feature films theatrically in the U.S. and handle foreign…